If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
More Jack London Quotes
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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